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About Garmin International Internship Program

Garmin is a worldwide provider of navigation products. We are
committed to making superior products for automotive, aviation,
marine, outdoor and sports that are an essential part of our
customers' lives. Our vertical integration business model keeps
these functions in-house, giving us more control over timelines,
quality and service. Garmin has more than 11,000 associates
worldwide.

Internships at Garmin offer real-life work experience that they
will want to write home--or text--about! We have interns in many of
our departments, including the majority in Engineering
(software/hardware/mechanical), IT, Operations, and Marketing, etc.
Most of our internships are located at our world headquarters in
Olathe, Kan., (Kansas City area) and last a minimum of 10 weeks in
the summer. There are also a few offsite locations that offer
internships (see our website). Our engineering interns work side by
side with full-time engineers, including a personal mentor,
assisting with development, testing, designing and developing
software and hardware features that will be used in Garmin
products. Non-engineering interns also work closely with experts in
their field.

Interns will come away from their internship at Garmin with real
industry experience that will help them advance in their future
career path, which we hope will be with us. In addition to a
challenging and rewarding work experience, our interns make
lifelong friends with coworkers and other interns from across the
country and get to know each other outside of work through various
social events throughout the summer. We have a casual, friendly
work-hard-play-hard culture, exemplified by our absence of a formal
dress code. We not only pay our interns a competitive wage, we also
provide coordinated and paid housing for them, allowing our interns
to show up and move right in! We evaluate every graduating intern
for full-time employment with the intention of making offers to
those who are a good fit. After all, our interns make the best
full-time employees. We offer paid time off (unused time gets paid
out at the end of the summer), paid holidays, free use of our
on-site gym and workout classes, subsidized memberships for gyms,
discounts on Garmin products, invitations to company events, paid
entry fees for certain races, opportunities to test new products
before they're released, discounts at local and national companies,
and much more. At our headquarters, we also have social and
community service committees on which our interns may serve.
Through these committees, our interns plan fun activities to get to
know each other and explore Kansas City. In addition, our community
service committee finds ways to give back to our community, which
fits perfectly into the culture at Garmin.